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all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.

ugh the blanket of the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.

To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.

cultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endles…

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak.

here upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.

To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. W. Irving.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.

manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton.

n between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. "Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith." Rom. xii. 6.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.

An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.

a plumb line or spirit level, and an arm by which it is applied to a cannon or mortar in adjusting it to the elevation required for attaining the desired range. -- Gunter's quadrant. See Gunter's quadrant, in the Vocabulary. Hadley's quadrant, a hand instrument used chiefly at sea to measure the altitude of the sun o…

To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

ad or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.